Geoffrey Hughes - جفري هيوز

@geofffhughes

Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Lecturer in @ University of Exeter ❤️🇯🇴❤️🇵🇸 crass self-promotion and jokes [he/هو/comrade/رفيق]

Vrijeme pridruživanja: lipanj 2019.

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  2. Lol @ "Caucasian"- The genius of it is that the people foolish enough to think a dna test like that is going to tell them anything about who they "really" are tend to also be foolish enough to hand their dna over to an unaccountable private company...

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  3. I think racial dna tests are a great way of separating fools from their money!

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  4. You see a lot of big talk about managerial competence from the centrist wing of the Democratic Party, but at least the Bernie people can count votes...

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    29. sij

    Wow. Wael Ghonim closed the Facebook page "we are all Khalid Said". It had over 3 million likes and was arguably one of the most important and iconic Facebook pages of the Arab Uprisings. I even set a reading about this very page on my course. RIP

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    28. sij

    Syllabus for Modern Approaches to Study of Islam. (Ngl, I am proud of this one)

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  8. -Amitav Ghosh, 1983, “The Relations of Envy in an Egyptian Village.” Ethnology, 22(3):221

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  9. ...If envy arises whenever a household thinks it has a means of changing its position within the determinate set of relations within the village, it is the well-to-do of the village who stand as the defenders of... those relations and, so, as the most likely agents of envy..."

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  10. ...He becomes a miser (baxiil); when he sees a stranger pass his doorway he is never heard to shout, ‘please come in’ (itfaḍḍal), nor does he serve tea or food to guests. Thus as a man grows rich his personality changes… and he comes to be filled with hatred and resentment…

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  11. "Villagers say it is always the rich man (ilghani) who envies the poor man (ilfagiir)… It is said that to become rich a man must have cunning… he has to save money for a long time, during which he must deny himself and his family everything that people in the village enjoy...

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  13. Honestly could not figure out how to say the guy's name for the life of me until I heard this and now it's all I can think about every time he comes up-

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    17. sij

    Started teaching new UG module this week, 'Politics of Biology', on the space between political thought/ideology/social relations and understandings of life/nature (Darwin onwards). Topic 1: 'Biology and Ideology 1: Political Uses of Evolution' (social Darwinism vs Kropotkin)

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    Martin Lewis and Kären Wigen have a book about this, the Myth of Continents. The assumption that Europe is a continent, and that Africa, Europe, Asia & “Oceania” are separate continents (N. & S. America too!) is fundamental to our entire understanding of history.

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  16. "Because we know you love listening to music... And we love listening to YOU!' -Spotify being a bit too on-the-nose rn

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  17. Probably nothing good. Is this what economists call a 'leading indicator'?

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    lets discuss the on کارل مارکس (Karl Marx): Kohl-rimmed eyes ✅ Too much blush aka just enough ✅ Gorgeous blowout ✅ Gold jewelry ✅

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    13. sij

    Someone needs to design Alcoholics Anonymous but for those addicted to bringing Nuance to Discourse

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  20. When you're a woman and you're in a meeting at work and your male colleague repeats the point you just made but dumber...

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